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HUMBLE to HANDSOME BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860S HUMBLE TO HANDSOME BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860s Introduction Stop 1: Bell’s Store 2 Weston Street, c.1888 Arriving by ferry at East Balmain wharf is the best possible introduction to Balmain. From the water, As you arrive at East Balmain wharf, this sandstone you can see the jumble of architectural styles building with its striking stepped gable will catch from every decade since the 1840s. Austere Post- your eye. Though much later than the other Regency stone buildings stand beside ornate late buildings on this tour, Bell’s Store is noteworthy as Victorian stucco terraces, 1960’s brick walk-up a reminder of Balmain’s maritime past, and as an apartment blocks, and 21st century concrete and example of the restoration of a derelict building glass boxes. Balmain’s diverse buildings reflect for community use. its diverse population: it is home to bikers and barristers, movie stars and public housing tenants. Originally a warehouse, Bell’s Store was taken over by Fenwick’s tugboat company, which demolished The ferry trip is a reminder of the importance of the gable to provide a better view of their boats’ water transport to Balmain, especially in early operations. The building became derelict in the colonial days when road transport was slow and 1990s, but was restored in 2012 by Leichhardt hazardous. A steam ferry service from Balmain to Council and the Heritage Council of New South the city began in 1844. Wales. The gable was rebuilt using an old picture as a guide. Why Are Early Balmain Buildings So Plain? The stonework in the façade is elaborate, with rusticated surfaces and a decorative pattern Many of the buildings you will see on this walk formed by using courses of different widths. This reflect the simple styles favoured by the earlier decoration, and the random boulders used in the Georgian and Regency architects, who emphasized side walls contrast with the plain, neatly dressed beauty of proportion, clean lines and an elegant stone blocks you will see at the next stop. simplicity inspired by ancient Greek and Roman buildings. Apart from its aesthetic appeal, [From Bell’s Store, walk up Darling Street. simplicity was also well suited to early colonial The first building on the left is Stop 2] life, when decorative materials and skilled artisans would have been relatively scarce. Stop 2: Shipwright’s Arms On this walk, you will see the transition from the 10 Darling Street, 1844 plain style of the 1840s to the ornate grandeur of the 1860s, reflecting both changing architectural From 1844 to 1966, this was one of Balmain’s many fashion and the growing prosperity of the colony. pubs, strategically placed to serve travellers to and from the city. Its unadorned simplicity is typical of 1840s colonial style. There is no ornamentation The Importance Of Balmain except for the horizontal moulding between the To Our Heritage storeys and the decorative quoins at each end of the Darling Street façade. The asymmetrical In their seminal work on Sydney architecture, arrangement of the windows suggests that Bernard and Kate Smith identified Balmain, function was more important to the builder together with Glebe, Hunters Hill and Paddington, than aesthetics. In verging on the primitive, this as among the historic areas of Sydney which building, like several others on the walk, reflects require the safeguards of special State legislation the rigours of early colonial life. in order to preserve them as an historic heritage for a future and more civilized Australia. HUMBLE TO HANDSOME: BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860s walks.balmainassociation.org.au 1 HUMBLE TO HANDSOME BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860s The sandstone blocks were probably quarried Corrugated iron verandahs were popular as a way of nearby, and the corrugated iron seen on the roof adapting British building styles to a warmer, sunnier was freely available in the colony from the 1850s, climate. The simple chamfered wooden verandah sometimes laid over an earlier roof of wooden posts are typical of the early colonial cottage. shingles. Twelve paned windows enabled well-lit interiors at a time before large sheets of glass [Continue uphill to Stop 5: Cahermore 50 Darling became available. Street, c. 1846] [Cross Weston Street to Stop 3: Waterman’s cottage Stop 5: Cahermore 12 Darling Street 1841] 50 Darling Street, c. 1846 Stop 3: Waterman’s cottage Yet another former watering hole, Cahermore 12 Darling Street 1841 began life as the Waterford Arms. Like its neighbouring inns, the Unity Hall and Shipwright’s Built by Cornish stonemason John Cavill, this cottage Arms, this simple stone building is utterly plain, was home to McKenzie the waterman, who provided its severe asymmetrical façade relieved only by a ferry service. Like its neighbour the Shipwright’s projecting sills and a narrow stone band dividing Arms, the cottage has a primitive quality. the upper from the lower storey. A single moulding decorates each chimney. The leadlight ‘Cahermore’ Built directly onto the street, the cottage makes above the door is a later addition. Cahermore is the most of its corner position by the placing of another fine example of an early building rescued its entrance and the French window above. The from dereliction: it was restored in the 1970s. stones jutting from the uphill corner show that it was the beginning of a terrace that was never [Continue uphill to the junction of Darling, Nicholson completed. Of special interest is the wooden and Johnston Streets] shingle roof; though common in the 1840s, most were later replaced with corrugated iron or other Stop 6: Former Unity Hall Hotel 49 Darling more modern substitutes. Street, c. 1848. The cantilevered balcony with its simple wooden balustrade, and the louvred French windows are This building is best viewed from across typical of the period. It seems likely that the balcony Nicholson Street. has been rebuilt using an old drawing as a guide: a Strategically occupying its corner, in its simple, photo of the building in the 1970’s shows a French asymmetrical style this former hotel resembles the window above the front door opening onto a much Shipwright’s Arms (Stop 2). The Unity Hall is larger smaller balcony facing the street corner. and more ambitious, however, with its arched door [Walk uphill to Stop 4: Cottages with Scottish and window and row of dormers. dormers 26-28 Darling Street, 1840] Built for innkeeper Thomas Acton, the Unity Hall Hotel had nine rooms with a detached kitchen, Stop 4: Cottages with Scottish dormers stables and a well. The name Unity Hall (and the 26-28 Darling Street, 1840 sign on the Darling Street façade, ‘Oddfellows Hall’) refer to its role as a meeting place for a Dormer windows, usually perched halfway up the Friendly Society, the Balmain Manchester Unity slope of the roof, are common in Balmain as a way Independent Order of Oddfellows. of lighting the roof cavity for use as another storey. However, this pair of semi-detached cottages is a After ceasing to operate as an inn, the Hall was rare example of the Scottish style of dormer, with used for various commercial purposes. A plaque window-sills cut into the façade below the eaves. indicates that it was restored in 1989-90. HUMBLE TO HANDSOME: BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860s walks.balmainassociation.org.au 2 HUMBLE TO HANDSOME BALMAIN ARCHITECTURE 1840-1860s [Optional detour: Energetic walkers may wish to Stop 8: St Mary’s Church walk down Johnston St and then into Paul St to view 85 Darling Street,1843 some 1840s sandstone cottages] The original, smaller St Mary’s Church was [Continue westwards along Darling Street to Stop 7: designed by Sydney’s great exponent of the Gothic Corner shop, 90 Darling Street c.1860] Revival style, Edmund Blacket. All that remains of Blacket’s design is the chancel, which retains the Stop 7: Corner shop, atmosphere of a mediaeval English village church, 90 Darling Street c.1860 with stone-flagged floor, hammer-beam roof and Decorated Gothic tracery. This former bootmaker’s shop, almost twenty years later than the humble Waterman’s cottage down Blacket’s church soon proved too small for the the hill, shows far greater refinement and attention growing congregation, so in 1858 most of it was to detail, from the dentillated brick chimneys to demolished and enlarged, using (so the story goes) the rusticated stone quoins and elegant cast-iron cheap, inferior sandstone, with the unfortunate balustrading. The façade is perfectly symmetrical, results that you see today. The stone has weathered and there is a restrained use of ornamentation, badly, the decorative pinnacles have been lost, and for example in the use of tiny brackets (corbels) to the spire was demolished in the 1940s for fear that support the generous stone windowsills. it might otherwise collapse. Metal caps have been fitted on the walls and some of the buttresses to The ground-floor walls are of stone, and the first protect the stone from further damage. floor walls are brick. The use of different wall materials is common in Balmain’s early colonial Architecturally the building lacks unity: although buildings, with expensive stone used for an Weaver and Kemp retained Gothic elements in impressive street facade, and cheaper materials their design of the rebuilt church, the large, later (brick or timber) for the less visible side or rear walls. nave, with its simple lancet windows, is out of proportion to the small, finely crafted chancel, The relatively plain cast-iron balustrading, and flat and from inside the church the join between openwork iron columns are typical of the 1860s: the old and new buildings is clearly visible in the later in the century the more ornate ‘iron lace’ stonework of the north wall.
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